someblokecalleddave
Well-Known Member
Re: Wrist Spin Bowling
How many overs do you play in your all dayers?
With regards the focussing in general games, I notice that loads of the blokes in my own team fade through the 50 overs that we play. I suppose it's a case of how serious you take your sport and how competitive you are as a person? If it's sport - any sport or game that involves physical and mental attributes I'm there to win and this really Miffs some people off "You get carried away - it's only a game Dave" etc and I'm saying under my breath 'it's not ONLY a game - it's life and death and I'm gonna win'! So I don't really have the problem - it might come with maturity as well. The only thing is when you're as passionate about winning as I am - you get the ache with the others that are not putting their all in to winning, so you have to watch that otherwise you can get really miffed with the rest of the team.
Another factor is where you live if it's here in the UK if we're lucky the temp might get up to 32 in the shade whereas if you're in India or Australia standing around in the sun in much higher temps must sap your energy and affect your concentration?
With bowling it's a case of concentrating and focusing fully. If you're getting let down by the fact that you're not physically up to it you either need to train more or recognise that maybe you're only good for x amount of overs? If it's a mental thing again similarly you either somehow mentally prepare for it or you concede that you're not up for it. With the mental aspect of the game I think that can be improved with practice and you might want to ask the same question in the fitness and nutrition section of the forum and Dave and Liz will probably give you a more in depth answer? But I'd say the mental part of the game comes about through supreme confidence in what you do. So it comes back to focusing on the key aspect of what you do e.g. be able to bowl the Leg Break and have total control of it line and length, speed, dip and drift and that's only going to come after shed loads of practice.
Does anyone know what kind of hours someone like Warne or Stuart McGill or any international spinner puts in for practice?
How many overs do you play in your all dayers?
With regards the focussing in general games, I notice that loads of the blokes in my own team fade through the 50 overs that we play. I suppose it's a case of how serious you take your sport and how competitive you are as a person? If it's sport - any sport or game that involves physical and mental attributes I'm there to win and this really Miffs some people off "You get carried away - it's only a game Dave" etc and I'm saying under my breath 'it's not ONLY a game - it's life and death and I'm gonna win'! So I don't really have the problem - it might come with maturity as well. The only thing is when you're as passionate about winning as I am - you get the ache with the others that are not putting their all in to winning, so you have to watch that otherwise you can get really miffed with the rest of the team.
Another factor is where you live if it's here in the UK if we're lucky the temp might get up to 32 in the shade whereas if you're in India or Australia standing around in the sun in much higher temps must sap your energy and affect your concentration?
With bowling it's a case of concentrating and focusing fully. If you're getting let down by the fact that you're not physically up to it you either need to train more or recognise that maybe you're only good for x amount of overs? If it's a mental thing again similarly you either somehow mentally prepare for it or you concede that you're not up for it. With the mental aspect of the game I think that can be improved with practice and you might want to ask the same question in the fitness and nutrition section of the forum and Dave and Liz will probably give you a more in depth answer? But I'd say the mental part of the game comes about through supreme confidence in what you do. So it comes back to focusing on the key aspect of what you do e.g. be able to bowl the Leg Break and have total control of it line and length, speed, dip and drift and that's only going to come after shed loads of practice.
Does anyone know what kind of hours someone like Warne or Stuart McGill or any international spinner puts in for practice?
. i actually flight the ball a fair bit in matches and nets probablly to much sometimes. I don't need to flight it too much anyway as my release is guaranteed to be above the batsmans eyeline being 6ft 3.